[Air-L] Looking for examples of aggregation communities

[ftr]

Derek,

If I remember well the historic German etymology dictionary, the 
Deutsches Wörterbuch, was collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 
way you describe, starting in 1838, published since 1854 (and finished 
in 1961).

Regards,
F. Thomas

On 23/10/2010 04:03, Derek Hansen wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I'm looking for some examples of communities of volunteers that help
> amalgamate a collection of materials rather than create them. The
> example we are examining is the Encyclopedia of Life, which aggregates
> data from many different scientific databases (and user-generated
> content such as Flickr images) into a coherent whole. The participants
> are called "curators" and their main role is to validate and approve
> content rather than create it. They also do a lot of work to integrate
> the original content into a coherent whole.
>
> What similar examples exist on the web today? What examples have
> existed for decades or centuries?
>
> Thanks ahead of time for any examples or thoughts.
> Derek Hansen
> Assistant Professor
> iSchool
> University of Maryland
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